United Bermuda Party Relaunches Website
[Updated - UBP add "candidates" section to website] The United Bermuda Party [UBP] is in the process of relaunching their website this morning [Sept.22] – and it appears they may have changed it into some form of a news outlet.
Changes are being made to the site at this very time, with all the content on the site added this morning. The old website was removed some back, and recently resurfaced with a change of software.
They have posted a number of articles this morning, all directly copied verbatim from local media sources including Bernews, The Royal Gazette and the Bermuda Sun. As of this writing, the site contains only news stories, with no political references to the UBP.
The UBP once dominated the political scene, winning eight back-to-back General Elections between 1968 and 1993.
They held 14 seats in the House of Assembly in the beginning of 2008, but by late 2009 they were down to 9 seats – having lost 5 seats in total – after the three MPs split to form the BDA, and both Wayne Furbert and Darius Tucker quit the party to sit as independents, and later as PLP MPs.
In May of this year, John Barritt, Pat Gordon-Pamplin, Trevor Moniz, Grant Gibbons, Louise Jackson, Bob Richards and Cole Simons all tendered their resignations from the UBP to serve under the OBA banner – leaving the party with just two seats in the house, the lowest in their 47-year history.
The two UBP MPs have not responded to Bernews questions about the future plans of the party, however we have asked them what the plans for the website are and can hopefully update as able.
Follow along with the UBP’s website development as they progress on UBP.bm.
Update 2:43pm: Subsequent to our posting this article, the UBP has made changes to the website. They removed the news from the front page, and added an under construction banner instead. They also added sections – which are presently password protected – including “candidates”, “about us”, “vision”, and “statements.”
Fail.
I was glad to see them leave. Someone poke the UBP, there’re DONE.
Welcome Back! we will all support you now, especially since all the old ubp baggage has travelled over to the OBA. The 2 representatives left, are honest, hard working and loyal, placing Bermuda 1st not money and upward mobility to the gp cars as the obaers have
crawl back – the Swans will win always!
Hmmm
sad
Leisure, your vocabulary is certainly limited, judging by the last article I read with one of your pithy comments! LMAO!
But seriously…didn’t the UBP just wind up?? I thought they closed up shop. Sorry, but really unless you want to help the current government, just bow out already and let’s see what the OBA can do.
I doubt they wanted this publicized. lol
UBP – please go back to sleep! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Then why do it …Uhhh.
Seems like Bernews has spies everywhere………….
Why did they even bother?
It’s all the UBP’s fault.
Hey ,……….RBK….detz mighy lyne……..
Kim is clueless…maybe he will pick up Ashfield and The Colonel and Stanley and who ever else is cast off and form party…What happens to the name UBP is Kim and Charley split up? can you be United it there are only one of you…?
Good grief, how embarrassing. If you can’t find anything to say about your party on your own website, Kim, how do you expect anyone to vote for you? We don’t need the UBP to act as a news aggregator. It would be better to have no website at all.
I wouldn’t be so quick, however, to point at Kim and the gang. I doubt they are the web developers and content managers. They definitely didn’t use the girl that did the website for the BIU. Atleast that looks reasonable. I’d hope they have the business or individual responsible on the phone right now to make some critical changes… or not. :\
We will vote for Kim in any area he runs because he is an honest politician, not a liar nor cheater! Kim Swan keep them on their toes – they are afraid of you.
Good call Limey. I think you meant to say ‘foresight’…….
this is funny, and a part of a failed plan. Keep UBP alive and functional (even if it is on a fumes) so there is an identifiable difference between the OBA and the UBP. So that (OBA) can say, we are not the UBP they are a functional but relic of time. WE (OBA) are a fresh, new innovative party, that is not in anyway a part of the old guard (UBP) so from time to time you will see stories about the UBP that supposedly sends the message there is a difference between the OBA and the UBP.
the only difference is the name, the money and the influence is the same. Whilst i like the new direction the new leadeship, the new philosophy, I must state as a political observer who is neither PLP, OBA, Or UBP. but to keep the UBP alive is very obvious as a political ploy and a very weak one at thata.
Finally, someone who has a clue! thanks.
NO difference? The oba is Pamplin, Gibbons, Moniz, Simons, Jackson, Barritt, Pettingill, Crockwell, Hunte, Dunkley all people who ran for the UBP in the last election? NO DIFFERENCE, SAME OLD SAME OLD. The now UBP has 2 dedicated black men, that are colour blind, wants and have always placed Bermuda 1st and not their pockets, businesses or relationships! All the old front street money is with the OBA – Sir John, Sir David Gibbons. Stop lying to the voters. People you now need to change from saying you can’t vote ubp and say you can’t vote OBA because that is what the OBA has become, the party of the people that called in your mortgages, blocked you from jobs you were qualified for just because of the colour of your skin or that you did not vote for them!!!!
I can never vote oba because all their members are the UBP. Now I can vote UBP because they have void themselves of the old selfish players
I could never vote PLP because many of their members are ex UBP.
Bermuda should do away with party politics, as long as there’s party politics it will always be a back and white issue, they should all run as Independents, all be paid the same, and have one port folio, the pm should Not have the finance folio, one is enough to get done, the health minister should at least have a background in health as did the late Nelson Bascombe etc.
And ??????????